According to reports, Trump asked Meta for his Facebook account to be reinstated.

According to reports, former President Donald Trump petitioned Meta for his Facebook account to be restored. According to NBC News, the Trump campaign sent a letter to the company on Tuesday, pushing for a meeting to discuss his “prompt reinstatement to the platform.” In 2020, Facebook banned Trump following the aftermath of the January 6th Capitol riot. The suspension was initially set to last 24 hoursThe company, however, is not affected. made the ban indefinite Less than a day later. Following a recommendation from the Oversight BoardMeta claimed it would revisit the suspension after two years and “evaluate” the “risk to public safety” to determine if Trump should get his account back.

Meta did not immediately respond to Engadget’s comment request. The company said NBC News it would announce a decision “in the coming weeks in line with the process we laid out.” In 2021, Meta signaled Trump’s ban wouldn’t last forever. “When the suspension is eventually lifted, Mr Trump’s account will be subject to new enhanced penalties if he violates our policies, up to and including permanent removal of his accounts,” Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of global affairs, said at the time.

Trump may have written the letter to try and regain control over his Facebook account in advance of the 2024 presidential elections. Trump has over 34 million Facebook fans, which was crucial to his 2016 campaign. According to a Bloomberg report published after the election, the Trump campaign ran 5.9 million different versions of ads to test the ones that got the most engagement from the company’s users. Meta was later created. put a limit on high-volume advertising. According to one Trump Organization employee NBC News That is the future prevented Trump’s 2020 campaign from using Facebook the way it did in 2016.